LUSTLANDS
Vol. II
On THE GREAT EASTERN
(after Andreas Embiricos)
TUESDAY 4 JUNE
Θερμησία Αργολίδας, Πελοπόννησος
Thermissia Argolidas, Peloponnese
www.lustlands.com
Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou and Lakis & Aris Ionas / The Callas
Lustlands was first organized as A Family Noir under the Sun, on a farm
at the area of Thermissia in Argolida, Peloponnese, in June 23rd, 2012
Between January 22 and February 16, 2013, Lustlands was beamed to New
York where it appeared as LUSTLANDS (a family noir under the sun : the
N.Y. rematerialization) at Family Business in Chelsea.
Lust was examined first as the wild and remote lands suggested by the
title and romantically reconsidered by the crisis-ridden Greek youth;
then as the valuable energy source that allowed for the unusual
transporting overseas dictated by the hard reality of tight art budgets.
Found in abundance in the much condemned South, lust is reconsidered
this year on board The Great Eastern, a seminal and radical work of
Greek Literature written by writer, psychoanalyst and photographer
Andreas Embiricos (1901-1975) between 1945 and 1951.
Comprised of 642.000 words in 8 volumes, The Great Eastern is a fierce
erotic-political utopia that references Fourierism, the writing of
Marquis de Sade as well as Jules Vern (who actually conceives his Une
Ville Flotante within the other book) and a great number of writers and
thinkers of the 19th and 20th c. and was published only between
1990-1992, raising major criticism. In this magnum opus of a novel, the
New World is the destination, the steamship of the title is the floating
paradise of free eroticism, and society is re-imagined as the innocent
and fair kind of co-existence that only this freedom can generate.
Inexorably repetitive in the narration of the sexual gyrations of its
passengers, The Great Eastern is also characterized by its formally
polished style, and almost archaic language, an idiom into which
European ‘classics’ were translated in Greek in the late 19th century.
A work of "the heights and the depths", as Embiricos himself used to
describe it, distinguished by its cosmopolitan spirit and
intertextuality, The Great Eastern was curiously criticized as being
"pornographic" and "delirious" as well as "boring", "annoying",
"wearisome", even "frustrating". Very few can claim to have read all of
it.
Lustlands, Vol.II - On The Great Eastern (after Andreas Embiricos) , as
organized on the Peloponnesian family farm, on June 4, 2013 is a small
step towards investigating all of the above by means of thinking, acting
and enjoying in a collective -or not level. Things, events, low-fi
gigs, countryside sculptures and rural installations, performances,
projections, food and drink will be featured.
Lustlands, Vol.II - On The Great Eastern is a work in progress where
love, lust, desire, boredom, ennui, revolution and the politics of
co-existence are examined in vitro.
Nadja Argyropoulou and Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas are the curators of the work.
List of Lustlanders (to be updated)
Loukia Alavanou, Athens Biennale, ATOPOS CVC & Clo’e Floirat, Eleni
Bagaki, Antonakis Christodoulou, Paul Cox & Iris Tamoschat, Daily
Lazy with guests (Stelios Karamanolis - Pavlos Tsakonas, Tula Plumi -
Christos Birakos, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Vasilis H, Dionisis
Christofilogiannis - Thanos Kyriakidis - Yorgos Tserionis), Dora
Economou, Andreas Embiricos, Extra-Conjugale (Irini Karayannopoulou -
Sebastien Marteau), Fivi Giannisi, Dimitris Halatsis, Hans Hollein
(revisited), Dimitris Ioannou, Lakis and Aris Ionas / The Callas,
Andreas Kassapis, Antonis Katsouris, Andreas Kikiras, Chrysanthi
Koumianaki, Kypseli fanzine, Lefteris Miaoulis, LIGHTROOM Projects (LRp)
with Spyros Staveris - Kamilo Nollas - Dimitris Michalakis - Manos
Chrysovergis, Panayiotis Loukas & Malvina Panagiotidi, Kosmas
Nikolaou, Vassilis Noulas, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Rallou Panagiotou,
Maria Papadimitriou & Michalis Softas, Leonidas Papadopoulos, Panos
Papadopoulos, Natasha Papadopoulou, Vassiliki-Maria Plavou, Poka-Yio,
Saprophytes, Manos Tsichlis, Alexandros Tzannis, Jannis Varelas, Paky
Vlassopoulou, Tassos Vrettos.
Live: The Callas, The Velvoids, Microondas, Afroditi Psarra
Dj set: Popscure
General information
Πότε; Τρίτη 4 Ιουνίου
When? Tuesday, June 4th
Πού; Θερμησία Αργολίδας (έξω από την Ερμιόνη, απέναντι από την Ύδρα)
Where? Thermissia Argolidas (near Ermioni, 30 min from Hydra island)
Τι; Αrt Experience, live Lo-Fi gigs, Performances, ποτό και μεζέ από τις 17:00 και μετά.
What? Αrt Experience, live Lo-Fi gigs, Performances, food and drinks from 5pm
Πρόσβαση / Access
• οδικώς (Ε.Ο. Αθηνών-Κορίνθου πρός Επίδαυρο, Ερμιόνη και Θερμησία) 2:30 ώρες.
by car (from Athens to Korinthos-Epidauros-Ermioni-Thermissia) 2:30 hours
• δελφίνι από Πειραιά προς Ερμιόνη (2 ώρες μέχρι Ερμιόνη και μετά 10 λεπτά με ταξί από Ερμιόνη στη Θερμησία)
Flying Dolphin from Piraeus to Ermioni (2 hours to Ermioni and then 10min by taxi from Ermioni to Thermissia)
• από Ύδρα με θαλάσσιο ταξί – αποβίβαση σε Porto Hydra ή Makis Inn (20min) και μετά άλλα 5min οδικώς με ταξί
• Water Bus or Taxi from Hydra to
a) Makis Inn and then by taxi to Thermissia (3min) or a 20min walk to Lustlands
b) to Porto Hydra Hotel and then by taxi (7min)
c) to Metohi village and then by taxi (15min)
Διαμονή / Accommodation
• Hydra’s Wave camping site (15 λεπτά με τα πόδια από το αγρόκτημα)
(15min walk from Lustlands) http://www.camping.gr/hydras-wave/ind-gr.htm
• Makis Inn rooms (20min walk from Lustlands) http://www.makisinn.com
Info on The Great Eastern by Andreas Embiricos
http://www.agra.gr/english/31.html
http://www.ekebi.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=node&cnode=478&clang=1
Eλεύθερη είσοδος / admission free
lustlands.com
info@lustmagazine.gr
Με την υποστήριξη και την συνεργασία των / With the support of
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